STUDY: A Happy News Feed Means A Happy Facebook User, And Vice Versa

Does the tone of Facebook users’ News Feeds end up affecting their actual moods. Yes, according to a recent study by social scientists from Facebook, Cornell University, and the University of California-San Francisco.

WomanSmilingTablet650Does the tone of Facebook users’ News Feeds end up affecting their actual moods. Yes, according to a recent study by social scientists from Facebook, Cornell University, and the University of California-San Francisco.

The researchers randomly selected 689,003 Facebook users and tinkered with the number of positive or negative stories that appeared in their News Feeds, finding that the “emotional contagion” effect worked both ways.” It should also be pointed out that the researches complied with Facebook’s data-use policy and did not see actual posts, working off the occurrence of positive and negative words in more than 3 million posts with some 122 million words in total — 4 million positive, and 1.8

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